Next month, the fairgrounds will complete their move from their previous location near the Gainesville Regional Airport to the Alachua County Agriculture and Equestrian Center, formerly known as the Canterbury Equestrian Showplace.
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Hoggetowne at Home, the fair’s 35th production, will be an online collection this year.
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Commissioners passionately expressed their disappointments, concerns, rebuttals and hope for the future before unanimously approving a motion to add a discussion of racial and equity disparities to the agenda of the next joint meeting.
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The crinkle of plastic bags kept pace with Kirk Franklin's music blaring over the speakers at the Alachua County Fairgrounds.
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A proposed Alachua County sports arena has run headlong into the politics of a decades-long effort to inject more economic activity into East Gainesville.
Read More »The Gainesville Native American Festival will be held at the Alachua County Fairgrounds. It will kick off with a school day on Friday and last until Sunday.
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Corrine Brown began her prison sentence, Alachua County and Gainesville leaders squabbled over seemingly every issue large and small, and six weeks into the new year, the Valentine’s Day school shooting in Parkland changed much about what was to unfold. It was a busy year in local and statewide Florida …
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County officials within the past month approached the property owner, Beazer East, about the idea of leasing or selling the 86-acre parcel just north of NW 23rd Avenue.
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The new Alachua County fairgrounds could alleviate some of the pressure that's heaped on district schools when they must transform into emergency shelters, but only if the county can find the money to make it happen.
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After Irma and as the holidays approach, Alachua County residents utilize the 2017 Strike Out Hunger Food Drive and Farm Share, a large-scale food bank that utilzies inmate labor and volunteers to distribute food across Florida for free.
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